Speech, Language, and Hearing Department
Services
Language Disabilities:
1. Slow development of vocabulary, concepts, or grammar.
2. Inability to use different communication styles for different situations.
3. Poor building blocks of understanding/expressing ideas, social development, learning, reading, and writing.
Articulation Disorders
1. Difficulty saying a sound and substituting it for another. (Wed for Red)
2. Omitting a sound in a word (Tee for Tree)
3. Distorting sounds in words. (Thee for see)
Fluency or Stuttering
1. Interruptions in the flow or the rhythm of speech.
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2. Includes but not limited to hesitations, repetitions, or prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases.
Voice Disorders
1. Speech that's pitch is too high or too low.
2. Speech that is monotonous in pitch.
3. Speech that is interrupted by breaks in phonation.
4. Speech volume that is too loud or too soft.
5. Speech that has a harsh, hoarse, breathy or nasal vocal quality.
Swallowing/Dysphagia
1. Difficulty in sucking, chewing, triggering a swallow, moving food into the stomach.
2. Interferes with eating lunch or snacks.
3. Reduces opportunities to build relationships or develop social communication skills.
Types of Services
1. Monitoring or periodic screening.
2. Collaborating and Consulting.
3. Classroom based services.
4. Small group or Individual sessions.
5. Speech Classrooms.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides Speech-Language Services for school aged children with communication disorders that adversely affects the child's educational performance.
Good Communication Skills lead to successful speaking, thinking, reading, writing and learning.
Poor Communication Skills lead to problems with understanding/participating in classroom instruction and developing/maintaining relationships.
This information and more can be found on the American Speech Language Hearing Association webpage: www.ASHA.org